The Facts on File space and astronomy handbook

著者

• Angelo, Joseph A.

書誌事項

The Facts on File space and astronomy handbook

Joseph A. Angelo, Jr

Checkmark Books, c2002

• : pbk

注記

Includes index

内容説明・目次

内容説明

Appreciating the principles that underlie the physical world requires a keen understanding of astronomy and space exploration. Featuring more than 2000 entries, this reference combines relevant terms, facts, chronologies and tables into a single resource. Among the topics covered are: active galaxies; big bang theory; deep space network (DSN); international space station (ISS); luminosity; planet fall; and space transportation system (STS). The featured biographies include: Neil Armstrong; Friedrich W Bessel; Tycho Brahe; Giovanni Domenico Cassini; Nicholaus Copernicus; Edmond Halley; Stephen William Hawking; Christiaan Huygens; Carl Edward Sagan; Charles Joseph Messier; and Johannes Kepler. The tables, charts and diagrams include: absorption spectrum; Baker-Schmidt telescope; centrifugal force; equatorial axis; Hertzsprung-Russell (HR) diagram; Kepler's laws; magnetosphere; outer planets; Stefan-Boltzmann law; and X-ray astronomy.

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詳細情報

• NII書誌ID(NCID): BA61570786
• ISBN:
  • 0816049602
• LCCN: 2001054323
• 出版国コード: us
• タイトル言語コード: eng
• 本文言語コード: eng
• 出版地: New York
• ページ数/冊数: x, 278 p.
• 大きさ: 24 cm
• 分類:
  • LCC : QB43.3
  • DC21 : 520
• 件名:
  • LCSH : Astronomy -- Handbooks, manuals, etc
  • LCSH : Space sciences -- Handbooks, manuals, etc